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International Medieval Congress 2-5 July 2018

The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is organised and administered by the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS). Since its start in 1994, the Congress has established itself as an annual event with an attendance of over 2,200 medievalists from all over the world.

Drawing medievalists from over 60 countries, with over 2,500 individual papers and 750 academic sessions, plus a wide range of performances, readings, round tables, excursions and bookfairs, the IMC is Europe’s largest annual gathering in the humanities.

Changes to programme: Monday 11.15-12.45

Session103: Sin, Miracles, and Heaven in Byzantium

Session104: Early Medieval Burial Culture and the Reuse of Cemeteries

Withdrawn

104-a Janet Kay

Replaced by

104-c (Re-)Using the Anglo-Saxon Killing Place: A Comparison of the Archaeological Evidence for the 'Execution Cemetery' and the Historical Evidence for the Cwealmstow(Language: English)
Alyxandra Mattison, Independent Scholar, Halifax

Session342: Fame: Patrons and Memories in Byzantium, III

Withdrawn

342-c Panagiota Mantouvalou

Replaced by

342-c Consigned to the Flames of Oblivion: The Fate of Fire Temples in Late Antiquity (Language: English)
Michael Burling, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham

Session451: Special Lecture: Black Legends, Bullying Queens, and the Wonders of Moorishland - How Spain Lives Its Medieval Past Today

This session will now take place in the School of Music Foyer, 16.30-18.00.

Monday's events

NEW INFORMAL GATHERING AT THE MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING

MEDIEVALISTS WITH DISABILITIES NETWORK

MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING: ROOM LG.10

13.00-14.00

An informal gathering for disabled students, early career researchers, academics, researchers, and their allies. Bring your lunch and meet other medievalists with disabilities or support your disabled colleagues. You do not need to be a member of the network to attend.

Session622: Memoria, Mnemonics, and the Multisensory in Birgittine Monasticism: Observations from Neuroscience

Withdrawn

622-c Magali Ljungar-Chapelon

Session626: 'Diana and all her sect': Remembering Women Warriors, II

Withdrawn

626-a Paulina Lorca Koch

Withdrawn

626-d Sara Rychtarik

Replaced by

626-c Diana's Sect: Amazon Queens between East and West (Language: English)
Roberta Magnani, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University (moved from session 526)

Session629: Saving Memories?: Salvation and Remembrance

Withdrawn

629-c Sebastian Kleinschmidt

Replaced by

629-c Memory in the Balance: Between Despair and Hope of Salvation (Language: English)
Celia Mill, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent

Session642: Construction and Deconstruction of Memory in Byzantium

Withdrawn

642-c Lutz Rickelt

Replaced by

642-c Some Thoughts on Several Byzantine Codices in which Galen Appears as Member of the Roman gens Claudia(Language: English)
Stefan Alexandru, Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie, Philipps-Universität Marburg / The British School at Athens

Session643: The Memory of the Crusades, II: National Memories, Crusading Projections

Withdrawn

643-a Ahmed Mohamed A. Sheir

Withdrawn

643-b Sophia Menache

Replaced by

643-b Crusade and the New Nationalism in France, 2002-2018 (Language: English)
Charlotte Gauthier, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London

Session644: Cultural Memory in Late Antiquity, II: The Memory of Persecution

Withdrawn

644-c Fabrizio Petorella

Replaced by

644-c Mobilisation or Maintenance?: Remembering Persecution in Late Antique Southern Gaul - The Cases of Sidonius Apollinaris and Avitus of Vienne (Language: English)
Becca Grose, Department of Classics, University of Reading

Session646: Traces of Memory in the Western Mediterranean, II: Monastic Memory

Session726: 'Diana and all her sect': Remembering Women Warriors, III

Withdrawn

726-a Natalie Anderson

Session729: Clerics, Parishioners, and Their Books in Late Medieval England

Withdrawn

729-a Gary Brannan

Replaced by

729-a John Lydgate on the Virtues of the Mass: Translation, Memory, and Change (Language: English)
Maria Volkonskaya, Faculty of Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow (moved from session 220)

Session735: Power, Memory, and Written Record in Medieval Spain, III: The Construction and Transmission of Royal Memory in Castile

Withdrawn

735-b Carmen Benítez Herrero

Replaced by

735-b Feminine Power in León in the 12th Century (Language: English)
Luísa Tollendal Prudente, Departamento de Historia Antigua y Medieval, Universidad de Valladolid

Session736: Time in Medieval Europe, I: The English Perspective

Withdrawn

736-c Jennifer Farrell

Session742: Designing the Past

Title change

742-b Now entitledThe Construction of Memory in the Historia Calamitatum (This paper will now be delivered in English.)

Withdrawn

742-c Sherif Abdelkarim

Session743: The Memory of the Crusades, III: Historiographical Echoes

Withdrawn

743-c Mabrouka Kamel

Replaced by

743-c How to Cope with Violence in the Historiography of the Crusades: A Critical Reassessment of the Label 'Holy War' (Language: English)
Tim Weitzel, Institut für Geschichte, University of Regensburg

Session745: (Mis)Remembering First Encounter, I: The 'New World'

Withdrawn

745-a Harriet Smart

Session747: Memorising and Remembering in the Middle Ages: Philosophical Approaches

748-b 'To teche or to play or ellys for to fyзte'?: The Purposes of the Fight-Book in London, British Library, Harley MS 3542 (Language: English)
Jacob H. Deacon, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds

Session818: Transformations of Power: Sessions in Honour of Paul Fouracre, I - From the Merovingians to the Carolingians

Withdrawn

818-a Alice Rio

Session820: Memory in Malory and Related Romances

Withdrawn

820-a Hanneli Seppänen

Session821: Remembering Romance

Withdrawn

821-a María Florencia Saracino

Session822: The Art of Memory, II

Withdrawn

822-b Gloria de Liberali

Replaced by

822-a The Ripoll's Tonary: The Use of Memory and Mnemonics to Learn Music in the Year 1000 (Language: English)
Joan Maria Martí Mendoza, Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (moved from sesión 1654)

Session830: Visual Memory in the Late Antique and Byzantine World

Withdrawn

830-b Foteini Spingou

Replaced by

830-a Martyrdom and Memory: The Construction of the Visual Description in the Homilies of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa (Language: English)
Mattia Cosimo Chiriatti, Departamento de Historia y Filosofía, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares

1033-b The Forgotten Patrons: The Cult of the Holy Five Brothers in the Czech Lands in the Period between the Middle Ages and the Present (Language: English)
Libor Zajíc, Department of History, Masaryk University Brno

1143-a Marriage, Memory, and Crusading in Medieval French Romance (Language: English)
Victoria Turner, School of Modern Languages - French, University of St Andrews
Respondent added Stephen Powell, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, New York

Session1146: Remembering Chivalry, II: Battlefield Conduct

Withdrawn

1146-b Pierre Courroux

Session1150: Canonize Yourself!, II: How to Become a Canon in a Medieval Central European Chapter

Withdrawn

1150-b Stanislaw Jujeczka

Changes to programme: Wednesday 14.15-15.45

Session1201: LEME, I: The Making of Space in the Early Medieval West

Withdrawn

1201-c Igor Filippov

Session1202: Books and Texts: Presentation and Readership

Change/Move

1202-c Now entitledPlaying with Pestilence: The Black Death in The Witcher

Session1205: Legitimacy through Wealth and Displays of Wealth in Medieval Europe

Withdrawn

1205-c Rui Miguel Rocha

Session1208: Early English Life Cycles: Corpora and Corpses

Withdrawn

1208-a Daria Izdebska

Replaced by

1208-a The Deaths of Two Saintly Youths: Alfred the Ætheling and King Edward the Martyr (Language: English)
Inna Matyushina, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

Session1212: Music, History, and Representation in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Session1214: Royal Marriages, III: Political Strategy and Diplomacy through Royal Marriages

Change/Move

1214-c Vitor Pinto

Session1216: 14th-Century England, III: Plantagenet Power at Home and Abroad

Withdrawn

1216-c Douglas Biggs

Replaced by

1216-c Movement between the Plantagenet Households of 14th-Century England: Knightly Service to Edward III and His Family (Language: English)
Matthew Hefferan, Department of History, University of Nottingham

Session1336: Voices of Law, IV: Memory, Language, and the (Re)Discovery of Law

Title change

1336-c now entitledThe Latin Law-Code of King Ine

Session1338: Architecture and the Memory of Otherness on the Iberian Peninsula

Withdrawn

1338-c Luís Duarte Ferro

Title change

1338-d Now entitledRemembering Sepharad Places, Jewish Traditions, and Contemporary Christian Music on the Model of the Organ of Valeria Church (1435) in _The Triptych of the Crucifixion_ attributed to Lluis Alincbrot (1450) (now 1338-c

Session1343: Now entitled Crusading Historiography, I

Withdrawn

1343-b Jamie Griffin

Replaced by

1343-c Crusaders as Personalities in the Arabic Sources (Language: English)
Betty Binysh, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University

Session1352: The Mead of Memory and the Memory of Mead

Wednesday's events

HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL HERESY AND DISSENT RESEARCH NETWORK AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY HOUSE: GREAT WOODHOUSE ROOM

20.00-21.00

You are warmly invited you to join us for wine and nibbles at our customary pre-Dance gathering.

Wednesday's events

NEW INFORMAL DISCUSSION SESSION AT THE MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING

SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE ACADEMY: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

MICHAEL SADLER BUILDING: ROOM LG.10

13:00-14:00

Building on discussions from previous IMCs and in the wake of the #MeToo movement, this session is an informal discussion where participants are invited to share their experiences and contribute to what we as academics can do to prevent sexual harassment in the academy. Although institutional policies exist, the vast amount of cases that have come to light in recent months demonstrate that further work is needed to protect staff and students from harassment. It is hoped that this session will be an open-ended discussion, allowing the safe sharing of initiatives and experiences, as well as positing solutions that staff can take back to their own institutions to implement. Live tweeting of the session will be in place to ensure all who wish to participate can do so.

Please note this is an informal discussion and a safe space for all participants: it is not intended to be a formal roundtable but an expression of ideas for the future. All academic staff, independent scholars and students welcome.

This discussion will be led by Gabrielle Storey (University of Winchester).

Wednesday's events

PRIZE CEREMONY: THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHY QUIZ

Hosted by BREPOLS PUBLISHING AND THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

PARKINSON BUILDING: PARKINSON COURT (BREPOLS STAND)

13:00

This year, Brepols Publishers and the Institute of Medieval Studies in Leeds are celebrating 50 years since the launch of the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB). To commemorate this event, a quiz was launched for all participants of the Leeds IMC 2018 with a chance to win a trip to Bruges, Belgium or one of many book vouchers. On Wednesday, 4 July at 13.00, the winners will be announced at the official prize ceremony hosted at the Brepols Booth at the IMC Book Fair.

Make sure to come by, because not only the winners can take something home. . .

1512-c The Emergence of the 'Multitude' in the 14th Century as a Mechanism of Violence and Enforcement: The Case of the 'Crusade of the Shepherds', 1320-1321 (Language: English)
Athanasios Panos, Faculty of History & Archaeology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Session1524: Carolingian Civilization 25 Years Later: In Honor of Paul Edward Dutton, I

Session1530: Interpretations and Permanence in Medieval Art History Research

Withdrawn

1530-a Ryszard Mączyński

Session1532: At the Crossroads of Empires: Sant'Ambrogio at Montecorvino Rovella - A locus memoriae in Southern Lombardy, I

Withdrawn

1532-a Chiara M. Lambert

Session1535: Record, Memory, and the Making of History, I: Religion on the Record

Withdrawn

1535-a Sara Mederos

Replaced by

1535-c Linguistic Analysis of Medieval Latin Sermons: How Language Mixing in Sermons Can Act as a Record for Language Use (Language: English)
Stephanie Kaefer, Department of English & Linguistics, University of Otago

Changes to programme: Thursday 11.15-12.45

Session1603: Byzantine Studies in China, II: On the Sea Route of the Silk Road

Withdrawn

1603-a Lin Ying

Replaced by

1603-b The Tibetan Title Dru gu Gesar (Caesar of the Turks) in the Northern Branch of the Silk Route and the Role of the Khazars (Language: English) (moved from session 1703)
Stefanos Kordosis, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, Greece

New paper

1603-c Reconsideration on the Embassies between Byzantium and Western Turks (Language: English) (moved from session 1703)
Li Qiang, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilisations, Northeast Normal University, China

Session1609: The Premonstratensians and Scripture

1609-b The Stained Glass Biblia Pauperum Windows of Steinfeld Abbey: Canonical Spirituality, Salvation History, and the Theological Imagination (Language: English)
William P. Hyland, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews

Session1613: Now entitled New Perspectives on Women in Medieval Romance, IV: Desire and Queer Identities

Withdrawn

1613-b Anna Lisa Somma

Replaced by

1613-b Desire and the Corpse in Medieval Romance (Language: English)
Rachel Fennell, Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Durham University (moved from session 1513)

Session1616: The Medieval Law Courts, II: Law in the Localities

Withdrawn

1616-c Tom Johnson

Session1618: Visions of Community, III: Tales of Two Cities - Urban Identities and Biographical Collections in the High Middle Ages

Withdrawn

1618-c John Eldevik

Session1622: 'I cannot live without books': Personal Libraries and Manuscripts

Withdrawn

1622-c Umut Var

Replaced by

1622-c Antonio Manetti's Library: The Making of a Memory of Communal Florence (Language: English)
Patricia Meneses, Department of History, Campinas State University (UNICAMP-Brazil)

Session1625: Memory of Trauma and Disease

Withdrawn

1625-b Matea Laginja

Replaced by

1625-b Powerlessness: Redeeming the Memory of Trauma in Patience(Language: English)
Jane Beal, English Department, University of La Verne, California (moved from session 321)

Session1626: Gender, Sexuality, and Memory

Withdrawn

1626-b Mila Krneta

Replaced by

1626-b Albina the Anti-Saint?: Hagiographical Influence and Transgendering in the 'Albina' Prologue of the Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle (Language: English)
Madelaine Smart, Department of English, University of Liverpool

Session1723: Remembering Saints in Text and Image

Session1726: Gears of Memory: Reading, Learning, and Writing in the Nunnery

Withdrawn

1726-c Laura Cayrol Bernardo

Session1735: Partnerships of Power in the High Middle Ages

Withdrawn

1735-c Sebastian Roebert

Replaced by

1735-c A Secular and Sacred Partnership of Power: The Shared Space and 'Unshared' Time of the Grain Market and Confraternity of Orsanmichele (Language: English)
Marie D’Aguanno Ito, Department of History, American University, Washington, DC

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